Monthly Archives: December 2015

Business, Social Media, Technology

REVEALED: MARK ZUCKERBERG’S PLAN TO PHASE OUT FACEBOOK

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Mark, Max and Priscilla
Mark, Max and Priscilla

MENLO PARK, California (The Adobo Chronicles) – What a difference a new-born baby makes.

To welcome the birth of their baby daughter Max, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announced a new initiative in which they will donate 99% of their wealth to charity. Most of that money, in excess of $45 Billion, is coming from Facebook, the highly successful social media network founded by Zuckerberg.

With just 1% of his assets remaining — after the donation — there is no way Zuckerberg can continue to sustain Facebook operations, and that’s a big concern among the social media network’s more than 1.5 Billion users.

That concern  was just confirmed today as Zuckerberg announced that he will be gradually phasing out Facebook in the next 5 years or so.  He and Priscilla will be focusing on raising their daughter in an environment free of social media.

This latest announcement by Zuckerberg energized the people behind ELLO, the Facebook-like social media network launched last year but didn’t quite take off fabulously as anticipated.

So if you’re a Facebook addict or if your social life is totally based on Zuckerberg’s Internet platform, it’s time to make plans for the future  — the very near future in fact.

Government, Politics

U.S. SENATE VOTES TO DEFUND PLANT PARENTHOOD

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The Republican Senator from Alabama (Photo credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
The Republican Senator from Alabama (Photo credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, D.C. (The Adobo Chronicles) – Acknowledging that any bill that repeals Obamacare and defunds Planned Parenthood will be vetoed by President Obama, Senate Republicans today changed their strategy to ensure that the legislation they pass gets signed by the occupant of the Oval Office.

Republican Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama introduced a final amendment that not only combines the Obamacare and Planned Parenthood bills into one, but drastically changes the title and language of the singular bill.

And it worked quite perfectly. The amended bill was unanimously approved by the Senate, and given the title RADPP or the Responsible Act to Defund Plant Parenthood.

No details of the new bill were made available to the media, but both Republicans and Democrats assured reporters that it is a bill that will definitely be signed by President Obama.

We suspect it is a bill that would greatly benefit the plant, animal and human species.

It is a victory for bipartisanship which is rarely seen in Congress.

 

Politics

PHILIPPINE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE DUTERTE’S CHILDREN: ‘OUR DAD IS NO PRINCESS DIANA’

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Rodrigo Duterte
Rodrigo Duterte

DAVAO CITY, Philippines—Two of presidential candidate and Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte’s children have issued a public apology over their father’s “street thug” personality but stressed that he was very capable of leading the country.

“I apologize for his behavior,” his daughter Sara Duterte-Carpio wrote on Instagram on Tuesday, adding that her dad  “does not have the finesse of Lady Diana.”

Her brother, Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte also apologized, saying his father does not behave like royals do.

Duterte drew the ire of netizens after he cursed Pope Francis on national television, blaming the pontiff for his being stuck in traffic while in Manila.

Both Sara and Paolo however promised that if their dad  becomes president of the Philippines, they will do all they can to train him on good manners and right conduct, social etiquette, international diplomacy and royal protocol, realizing that as president, he would have to hobnob with the likes of Queen Elizabeth as well as presidents and prime ministers of other countries. Not to mention Pope Francis.